Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center is in Grass Valley, California. This city has a population of 44,940 people. This is a strong nursing home with a grade of B+ overall. We were pleased to find out that many of the other nursing homes in Grass Valley received similar scores. In our view, this facility is a solid choice for most people. This nursing home was stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of our major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Grade: B-plus
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
Grade: A-plus
In addition to faring well overall, this facility also earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.
Nurse Quality
Grade: B-plus
Building on its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this facility an B+ for our nursing rating. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
Grade: B-plus
This facility also received a favorable long-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.81517 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
Grade: B-minus
The final area we looked at is short-term care, where this nursing home was given a B-. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. This is nevertheless not a terrible score. Our short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.
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Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: A-plus
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 2.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term patients which suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: B-minus
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 3.79% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: D
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 4.87% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often the result of facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: F
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 33.09% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: C
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 26.37% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients which are given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: A+
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 0% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: B
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 97.38% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: B-plus
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 13.16% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate the deterioration of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: B-minus
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 12.76% of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who retained mobility levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is important for patients mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
Grade: A
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: B-plus
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 12.76% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Grade: B
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 12.55% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Grade: B-plus
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 80.63% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Grass Valley, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Grass Valley, California has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Sierra Nevada Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.2 miles away155 Glasson Way Grass Valley California 95945Voluntary non-profit - Other(530) 274-6000
Nearby Dialysis
- Grass Valley Dialysis Center0.96 miles away36o Crown Point Circle, Suite 210 Grass Valley California 95945CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (530) 477-0734
